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English Spelling: The Easiest Way To Accurate And Effective English (Collins Webster’s Easy Learning)

Collins Webster’s Easy Learning Spelling is suitable for anyone who wants to improve their spelling and write more accurately and impressively. By describing the important features of English spelling, rules to use, and pitfalls to avoid, this e-book makes spelling easy.

Grammar and Punctuation (Collins Webster’s Easy Learning)

Collins Webster’s Easy Learning Grammar is an accessible guide to English grammar and punctuation. With clear, concise explanations on everything from adverbs to word order, and from apostrophes to semicolons, this e-book is indispensable for understanding correct usage.

Easy Learning Writing (Collins Easy Learning English)

Collins Easy Learning Writing is an easy-to-use guide on how to write good, clear and effective English. With simple explanations of everything from the basics of sentence and paragraph structure, to writing CVs, letters and essays, this e-book is a valuable guide for anyone who wants to improve their writing.

Easy Learning Spanish Idioms

A unique guide to communicating in Spanish. It will help learners discover expressions and idioms to make their Spanish more natural and fluent, while developing an awareness of Spanish culture.

Easy Learning French Idioms

A unique guide to communicating in French. It will help learners discover expressions and idioms to make their French more natural and fluent, while developing an awareness of French culture.

Easy Learning Grammar and Punctuation (Collins Easy Learning English)

Collins Easy Learning Grammar is an accessible guide to English grammar and punctuation. With clear, concise explanations on everything from adverbs to word order, and from apostrophes to semicolons, this e-book is indispensable for understanding correct usage.

Easy Learning English Spelling (Collins Easy Learning English)

Collins Easy Learning English Spelling is suitable for anyone who wants to improve their spelling and write more accurately and impressively. By describing the important features of English spelling and rules to use, this e-book makes spelling easy.

Collins English Skills Book 3 (PDF)

Collins English Skills 3 is intended for children age 7-8 in Year 3/P4. Each unit begins with a reading passage and follows a repeated pattern of reading, phonics grammar, writing and language activities. Ideal for use in literacy sessions. This book was previously published as Folens English Skills 3. âe¢ Build and develop key language skills with this whole-school programme âe¢ Raise standards in literacy through phonics, reading and writing activities âe¢ A flexible resource with photocopiable activity sheets for Key Stage 1 âe¢ Repeated pattern of learning provides support, consolidation and extension

Collins Big Cat Progress, Band 04 Blue/Band 12 Copper: A Folk Tale from France (PDF)

Jean and his friends are fishermen. Jean throws a spear at a passing dolphin to show his strength and suddenly the crew are swept into a terrible storm. Jean soon realises that he has injured the Dolphin King and put the lives of his friends in peril. Will Jean be able to make up for his mistakes?

Collins Big Cat, Band 18, Pearl: Virginia Hall World War II Spy (PDF)

At the beginning of World War II, a young American woman named Virginia Hall was sent undercover to Nazi-occupied France to spy on the German army. Follow her incredible true story as she bravely aids the French Resistance, organises and leads rebel armies and passes secret coded radio messages to the Allied forces in this fascinating biography. * Pearl/Band 18 books offer fluent readers a complex, substantial text with challenging themes to facilitate sustained comprehension, bridging the gap between a reading programme and longer chapter books. * Text type: A biography. * Curriculum links: History: What can we learn about recent history from studying the life of a famous person?

Collins Primary Focus — SPELLING: Pupil Book 2 [New edition] (Collins Primary Focus Ser. (PDF))

Collins Primary Focus: Spelling Pupil Book 2 is aimed at age 8+. In each unit a focus introduces the spelling rule, which is clearly explained and supported by examples and visual cues. Three follow-up activities allow children to practise, develop and extend their understanding. Progress Units ensure consolidation of work covered in the series. • Spelling rules are developed over the series to consolidate and build skills • The focus on phonetic spelling and word structure demonstrates clear links between spelling and grammar • Learning aims clearly stated as a question at the beginning of each unit • Engages all children with a colourful design and a range of exciting, new artwork

COBUILD Intermediate English Grammar And Practice: B1-B2 (Collins COBUILD Grammar)

Collins Big Cat, Band 02A, Red A: World of Football (PDF)

Everyone can play football, anywhere in the world! Find out what you need to play the game and where in the world it is played in this action-packed non-fiction report by Daniel Nunn. Red A/Band 2A books offer predictable text with familiar objects and actions, combined with simple story development. Children can re-cap the stages of the book on pages 14-15. Text type: An information book Curriculum links: PE: Striking and fielding games

Collins Primary Focus: Grammar and Punctuation (PDF)

Presented in a clear and colourful format, each grammar concept is supported by visual cues. Follow-up activities allow children to develop grammar and punctuation skills at different levels. Progress units provide opportunities for assessment and consolidation.

Collins Primary Focus: Grammar and Punctuation

Presented in a clear and colourful format, each grammar concept is supported by visual cues. Follow-up activities allow children to develop grammar and punctuation skills at different levels. Progress units provide opportunities for assessment and consolidation.

Collins Primary Focus: Pupil Book 3 (PDF)

Collins Primary Focus: Grammar and Punctuation Pupil Book 3 is aimed at ages 9+.

Collins Primary Focus — GRAMMAR AND PUNCTUATION: Pupil Book 2 [New edition] (Collins Primary Focus Ser. (PDF))

Collins Primary Focus: Grammar and Punctuation Pupil Book 2 is aimed at ages 8+. Presented in a clear and colourful format, each grammar concept is supported by visual cues. Follow-up activities allow children to develop grammar and punctuation skills at different levels. Progress units provide opportunities for assessment and consolidation. • Concepts reappear in each level to build confidence, reinforce learning and add complexity • Demonstrates clear links between grammar and punctuation • Supports all ability levels with a progression through solid practice of the core concept to using grammar and punctuation in the context of more extended writing • Engages all children with an updated design and a range of exciting, new artwork

Grammar And Punctuation (Collins Primary Focus Ser. (PDF))

Collins Primary Focus: Grammar and Punctuation Pupil Book 1 is aimed at ages 7+. Presented in a clear and colourful format, each grammar concept is supported by visual cues. Follow-up activities allow children to develop grammar and punctuation skills at different levels. Progress units provide opportunities for assessment and consolidation. • Concepts reappear in each level to build confidence, reinforce learning and add complexity • Demonstrates clear links between grammar and punctuation • Supports all ability levels with a progression through solid practice of the core concept to using grammar and punctuation in the context of more extended writing • Engages all children with an updated design and a range of exciting, new artwork

Collins Primary Focus: Pupil Book 4 (PDF)

Collins Primary Focus: Comprehension Pupil Book 4 is aimed at ages 10+. Using a variety of well-known authors, the book is designed to encourage children to read and understand every essential fiction and non-fiction text type.

Collins Primary Focus: Pupil Book 3 (PDF)

Collins Primary Focus: Comprehension Pupil Book 3 is aimed at ages 9+. Using a variety of well-known authors, the book is designed to encourage children to read and understand every essential fiction and non-fiction text type. Follow-up activities progress from literal questions to higher order thinking skills.

Comprehension - Pupil Book 2 (Collins Primary Focus Ser. (PDF))

Collins Primary Focus: Comprehension Pupil Book 2 is aimed at ages 8+. Using a variety of well-known authors, the book is designed to encourage children to read and understand every essential fiction and non-fiction text type. Follow-up activities progress from literal questions to higher order thinking skills. • Features significant authors from a range of eras including contemporary household names that children love to read • Includes every genre required by current literacy frameworks • Supports all ability levels with a progression through literal, deductive, evaluative and inferential questions • Engages all children with an updated design and new artwork to complement different texts

Collins Primary Focus: Pupil Book 1 (PDF)

Collins Primary Focus: Comprehension Pupil Book 1 is aimed at ages 7+. Using a variety of well-known authors, the book is designed to encourage children to read and understand every essential fiction and non-fiction text type.

Comprehension: Introductory Pupil Book (Collins Primary Focus Ser.)

Collins Primary Focus: Comprehension Introductory Pupil Book is aimed at ages 6+. Using a variety of well-known authors, the book is designed to encourage children to read and understand every essential fiction and non-fiction text type. Follow-up activities progress from literal questions to higher order thinking skills.

Mog’s Amazing Birthday Caper: ABC

Share in fifty years of a really remarkable cat… Mog is everyone’s favourite family cat! Join her in this warm-hearted and funny alphabet adventure, when everything goes wrong at a birthday party… Now in full-colour ebook with optional read-along recording by Andrew Sachs. From the creator of The Tiger Who Came to Tea and Mog the Forgetful Cat comes a delightful family adventure about a really remarkable cat! On the day of Debbie’s birthday party, Mog sets off on an adventure through the alphabet, filled with dragons in the dark and the jaguar with a jug of jelly. M is for Mog, but also for the mad mouse monster! The perfect Mog adventure for learning the alphabet. Mog the Forgetful Cat was first published fifty years ago, and Mog has been delighting children all over the world with her adventures ever since. These books are the perfect gifts for boys, girls and families everywhere! [Note that audio content may be dependent on the functionality of your ebook reader. Download a sample, where possibility, to check.]

The Complete Guide to Middle-earth: The Definitive Guide To The World Of J. R. R. Tolkien

A peerless A–Z guide to the names, places and events in the world of J.R.R. Tolkien.